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<h1>User
Assistance Features in Eclipse 3.4</h1>

<p>By Chris Goldthorpe, IBM </p>

<h2>Background</h2>

<p>All of the feature requests for Eclipse 3.4 can be found in Bugzilla. Below is a summary of the major new features
together with a link to the corresponding Bugzilla entry
which contains more information. </p>

<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=198397">Bug 198397 &#8211; Apply a universal CSS 
stylesheet to all help topics.</a> This feature allows
document creators to apply a style sheet to all documents in the help system,
not just the ones they have authored.</p>

<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=200031">Bug 200031
&#8211; Custom 404 error page for a product's Help.</a> Allows
the error page to be specified at the product level.</p>

<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=149965">Bug 149965
&#8211; [Help] 'Show in table of content' should be toggle button.</a> The
navigation tree in the Help web application can now follow the content page
when hyperlinks are clicked.</p>

<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182425">Bug 182425
&#8211; [Help] Add Index to Help menu.</a> A command
has been added which allows the enablement of the Help/Index command.</p>

<p>A number of changes have been made to the context help view including <a
href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=100959">Bug 100959 &#8211;
[Help][Context] &quot;Sibling products in a common source tree&quot; seems to
be related to almost every view</a> and <a
href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=121612">Bug 121612 &#8211;
[Help][Context] Dynamic help should show a message when no search results found</a>.</p>

<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=195144">Bug 195144
&#8211; [help.eclipse.org] TOC is not sorted logically or alphabetically</a>. Toc
entries are now sorted alphabetically if no other order is specified.</p>

<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=209059">Bug 209059
&#8211; [Intro] Allow Universal Intro to default to non-root page.</a> This
allows the root page of Universal intro to be replaced by a product specific page
while still using the remaining pages of universal intro.</p>

<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=202160">Bug 202160
&#8211; [Help] Add a feature for the Eclipse help system</a>. This makes it
easier to create RCP applications which use the help system.</p>

<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=201666">Bug 201666
&#8211; [Webapp] Changes made for to help system to
use it as a WAR</a>. The help Webapp can be packaged
as a Web archive by following a sequence of instructions. This allows the infocenter to be run on a wide range of Web Servers.</p>

<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=107648">Bug 107648
&#8211; [Help] Boost rank of Search hits when content match is in &lt;title&gt;</a>.
This has the effect of improving the quality of search results.</p>

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